Even if one may argue whether it is a clever idea to give machine the possibility to overcome human inputs in order to improve safety, you can’t help but notice that human errors remain the root cause of the majority of the mishaps among civil airplanes (ever heard of Asiana Air 214?), military flights and, obviously, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).

German drones (their pilots, to be fair) seem to be particularly dangerous for other planes.

An exclusive (previously “secret”) video released by BildTV shows what happened at Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan on Mar. 17, 2010.

A German Heron drone taxing at night crashes into a C-160 Transall cargo. Both aircraft were severely damaged by the accident, reportedly caused by the remote pilot, a junior officer, who was unable to stop the made-in-Israel surveillance drone after accidentally engaging the autostart.

After the close encounter, the drone was caught in the Airbus’s wake turbulence, lost control, and crashed over the Afghan capital Kabul.

“Bundeswehr experience with drones is an infinite history of failures, crashes and embarrassment,” Bild says.

Last month, German Ministry of Defense scrapped the Euo Hawk program, after analysis showed that integration of the type in the European airspace would require over 600 million euros ($784 million), a claim rejected by Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS.

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